Error message: "unable to load font 0" when I try to access an old game

[Kirinin]

Hopefully I won't be slapped silly with a moist trout for this one.

My old computer was low on space, so I deleted AGS with great regret.  Now I have more time (and more space on my new hard drive) I reinstalled AGS, newest version, so I could continue working on my old game.

When I try to access the game file I was creating, it doesn't show up on the 'open previous game' window in AGS at all.  When I search in my own files while NOT on AGS, it WILL show up.  But it won't open.  Instead, it gives me the following error message:

"ACI version: 3.12.1074
"Error: unable to load font 0.  No renderer could load a matching file."

Then it advises me to come here 'if the problem persists.'

It persists.

Hunting around here, I found a discussion that advised me to find the file for "font 0" and delete it, with the assumption that the file would revert to the default font.  I found the file and moved it to the recycle bin, and tried again.  I got the same error message.

I was definitely working with another version of AGS before this (late 2009), so it may not be compatible.  I tried downloading the OLD version of AGS on the downloads page, but the result was the same.  Do I have to uninstall the new version, first, forcing the game to be accessed by the old version?  Or is the version of AGS not the problem at all?  I am here more for my love of old computer games than my love/knowledge of programming, so use small words and speak slowly, please.   

Sorry if this is TL;DR, but I wanted you guys to know what I'd already tried.  Thank you for any help you can give.   

-Kirinin

[Kirinin]

I uninstalled the new version entirely and tried to run the game from the old(est) available version.  It still doesn't show up.   :'(

Please let me know if I am asking in the wrong area of the boards. 

I also apologize for repeat posting, but I wanted to add that I'd tried something new and it still gives me the same error message.

-K

[jomalin]

You are executing the game (the exe file) from the folder "_Debug", you must execute it from the "Compiled" folder.